Tag: Climate and transitions
Covid-19, Mpox, avian flu… The decline of biodiversity threatens us all
Animals of all kinds locked up in a market, a confined city, an invisible enemy raging, the world soon to its knees… The beginning of the script for a disaster…
Coffee, cocoa, meat… These products resulting from deforestation are now banned by the EU
No traceability, therefore no cocoa, or even coffee… After long negotiations, the European Parliament and the EU Member States reached an agreement overnight from Monday to Tuesday to ban imports…
Adrien Estève: “For the armies, the climate is never the first priority”
The climate crisis cuts across all strata of society. The army, too, wonders about the upheavals in progress and to come. From the use of weapons with more than harmful…
Development of renewable energies: the measures voted by the National Assembly
An obligation to install solar panels in large outdoor car parks, new exemptions for installations on the coast… The National Assembly adopted on Friday December 9 a series of provisions…
Nicolas Mouquet: “The climate is an almost daily subject of discussion, not biodiversity”
Less known than the great masses dedicated to the climate – such as the one that has just ended in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt – the COP15 devoted to the…
Recreating a primary forest in France, sweet dream or necessity?
Some dream of wealth or power. Francis Hallé, for his part, would content himself with bequeathing to future generations a primary forest, a natural carbon sink dotted with majestic multi-hundred-year-old…
Power cuts: where are we before the first weekend of extreme cold?
As France prepares to live its first very cold weekend on December 10 and 11, the government is trying to set up a strategy to protect its electrical network under…
Vegetation, watering… How French cities adapt to heat waves
On July 18, around sixty French municipalities experienced absolute temperature records: 38.2°C in Limoges, 39.7°C in Saint-Brieuc, 40.1°C in Caen, 42°C in Nantes… And it will take some getting used…
EDF and Russian uranium: quick, transparency!
Is EDF dependent on the Russian nuclear bear Rosatom? At a time when the State stands ready to massively relaunch nuclear power in France, with the idea of sovereignty in…
Venice finally saved from the waters? The Mose project explained in four infographics
What if it was the right one? The mythical city of Venice was born centuries ago in the heart of a fragile ecosystem, its lagoon. Depending on the weather and…